The Mexican Urban Household: Organizing for Self-defenseBased on surveys of some 10,000 households, this study reveals how Mexican families band together and use their every resource to defend themselves against a political and economic system that overwhelms and exploits them. The study traces the high cost to families, particularly to women, of the endless struggle to make ends meet. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Contents
PART ONE The Setting the Study and the Cities | 1 |
PART TWO The Mexican Urban Household | 49 |
The Mexican Urban Household | 87 |
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The Mexican Urban Household: Organizing for Self-Defense Henry A. Selby,Arthur D. Murphy,Stephen Alfred Lorenzen No preview available - 1990 |
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activities average Blue-collar registered blue-collar workers capital chapter Ciudad Netzahualcoyotl colonia popular complex consumption costs defined dependency ratios discretionary income domestic cycle earnings economic crisis Employment Segment expenditures expenses females González growth Guadalajara high-growth cities household budget household heads household income household members important Income Quintile individual informal sector interviewed Jalisco labor market levels lineally extended households livability living majority males married matrifocal households Mazatlán Median ment Mérida Mexicali Mexican household Mexican urban household Mexico City minimum salaries Murphy neighborhood nomic nuclear family number of children Oaxaca Occupational Role ordinary Mexican parents percent percentage peso political poor population primary education production Querétaro quintiles relatively Reynosa sample San Luis Potosí Selby Singleton social Stepick strategy survival Table Tampico term tertiary unregistered tion total household types unregistered workers urban Mexico variables Venustiano Carranza villages Villahermosa wages white-collar women Zapotec